His-And-Hers Verse
ZAPPI, Giambattista; Faustina MARATTI.
Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte. Nice, Société typographique, 1781.
Small 8vo, pp. 128; title within typographic border, typographic headpieces; sporadic light foxing and spotting, a few small wormtracks at gutter, not affecting text; a good copy in contemporary blue wrappers, decorated with ink frame; title lettered to spine in manuscript; somewhat dust-soiled, spine worn and chipped with small loss to head; ownership inscription ‘Del. Pr. Vicenzo Lotti’ to front pastedown, dated 1800.
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Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte.
Uncommon Nice printing of the collected poetry of one of the most prominent literary couples of early eighteenth-century Rome, Faustina Maratti (1679–1745) and her husband Giambattista Zappi (1667–1719).
First published after Zappi’s death in 1723, the collection consists of seventy-three poems by Zappi and thirty-eight by Maratti. The two had met through the Accademia degli Arcadi, of which Zappi, a lawyer by training, was one of fourteen founder members, and Maratti was one of the earliest female members (they were known by the academic pseudonyms Tirsi Leucasio and Aglauro Cidonia, respectively). Renowned amongst artists and poets in Rome and beyond, the Zappis hosted the likes of Georg Friedrich Händel, Domenico Scarlatti, Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, and Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni.
The present printing is by the Société typographique in Nice, established in 1779 by the lawyer-turned-printer Charles Cristini (d. 1817), which specialised in the printing of Italian classics.
Provenance:
With the 1800 ownership inscription of the Ligurian priest Vincenzo Lotti, known for his scholarly histories of his native city of Taggia.
Outside continental Europe, OCLC finds four copies in the US (Harvard, Missouri, Wisconsin, Yale), and one in Australia (Sydney). No copies traced in the UK (Library Hub finds a single copy of another edition, also printed in Nice in 1781 but under a different title, at the BL).